I don't get this whole PoC discussion...

[basselope]

218. Just stop with the nonsense....

Try reading what I wrote before you sound off.

Let me first correct your assumption. The person I was talking about who had never heard of him was WHITE... A White Jewish Doctor from NY and I asked him his opinion (before the Iowa caucuses) and he had NO CLUE who Bernie Sanders was.. so lack of name recognition is NOT a PoC issue, it is an issue in MANY MANY states where ad dollars have not been spent yet, where the candidates have not been spending a lot of time and where people just aren't that tuned into all of this yet. Not a black thing, not a white thing, not a latino thing... it's called a HUMAN thing and you can see it in poll after poll in state after state, as the candidates move into the state, the gap closes. She had 90% of the minorities in Iowa, but when the votes were done, it was only 2/3. She had a big lead with minorities in NH, but when the voting was done, it was 50/50.

Here in California I run into people all the time who STILL don't know who Bernie Sanders in and after I talk about him they say, "I'll have to check him out". It's not because their ignorant or less informed... it is because they have busy lives and don't pay much attention to the national political news. When the California primary comes around, they will pay attention.

I really don't pay too much attention to much of what people say on this board for the other thing you failed to read in my answer. We here are political animals.. we live and breathe this stuff and we are such a small % of the population that the fact people on this site have formed opinions and know the name of every candidate doesn't translate to ANY population.

What's really OBNOXIOUS is people not bothering to read the post and responding to what they want the post to be.

Again, this is a NAME RECOGNITION ISSUE. That is not passing judgment on any group of people.

Heck, his polling numbers in Mass aren't good right now and that state is 80 something % white. http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/ma/massachusetts_democratic_presidential_primary-3891.html

Why? because their primary isn't until March 1st, so I doubt they are paying much attention yet.

So please, take the stick out of your behind, b/c it isn't insulting to say this is about name recognition.